User’s Guide

Get Started

• Overview
• Installation
  • Download pyNuMAD
  • Installation
• Getting Started
  • Initializing a blade object
  • Interfacing with other software

User Interface

• Blade Overview
  • Definition (blade.definition)
  • Geometry (blade.geometry)
  • Keypoints (blade.keypoints)
  • StackDB (blade.stackdb)
  • BillOfMaterials (blade.bom)
  • MaterialDB (blade.materialdb)
• Meshing Overview
  • In-house mesher
  • Meshing with Cubit
• Making Beam Models
• Making Shell Models
• Making Solid Models
  • Pure solid model (explicitly descritezed sandwich panels)
  • Layered solid model (homogenized sandwich panels)